>> Reporter Alex Koch has discovered that Turning Point USA, the right wing student
organization that terrorizes professors that they do not agree with, is receiving quite
a bit of money from GEO Group, which is a private prison.
And GEO Group, by the way, is taking in a lot in government contracts to provide detention
facilities for migrants at the border.
Now GEO Group, according to Alex Kotch's reporting, gave two donations of $25,000 on March 24
and October 23, each listed as part of its annual contribution.
So they give this money to Turning Point USA.
And then Turning Point USA immediately turns around and puts out pro-GEO Group, pro-detention
facility propaganda.
One example of that is what Candace Owens did.
So, again, immediately after receiving these donations, Candace Owens puts this video out
on Twitter.
Take a look.
>> I was able to get access to go into an actual an actual immigration center that is
here in Broward County.
I'm going to show you guys where I'm at.
I hope this is the most viral Periscope video that I do.
I genuinely hope that every single person re-Tweets this.
Children are being mistreated in this country.
They are not the children that are sent to ICE immigration centers, okay?
And by the way, I'm with an entire film crew.
So I'm about to blow up this narrative in a way that the left is not expecting because
they are filthy, disgusting liars.
And I am sorry that I am so angry right now.
But what I just saw was astonishing, okay?
This place is nicer than where I went to the public school system.
There's a nursing station that is so clean and so nice, where they dine, they're sitting
down laughing, eating food.
They have people that go to the counter that can participate if they want, they can help
cook if they want.
Let me tell you what activities they have here.
I walked in on the women that were in their arts and crafts session.
They had just concluded their Zumba class, okay?
In the same room that they do their Zumba, they also have to do their arts and crafts,
okay?
That's just for the women's side.
And I will be posting and doing a documentary on what is actually happening.
You knew that no one within those walls was going to say anything.
And you didn't think that I would have the gall to come down here with the camera crew
and to blow up all of your lies.
It is coming to you soon.
>> My favorite part of that was not her cursing about the kids classes.
It was when she said, I was able to obtain access.
Gee I wonder how you were able to obtain access?
Because it's the same people who are paying your salary at the time when you work for
them.
>> I also want to note that in the end of that video she references a documentary or
something that she's going to do about the facility.
To basically blow up the narrative that these facilities are not keeping these migrants
in safe conditions.
We've been searching for that documentary, it doesn't exist.
We've been searching for that video, doesn't exist.
So where is it?
Did you blow up the narrative?
I mean, it's just sick.
It's sick.
I mean, at this point, I've said it before.
I'm gonna say it again.
Six kids have died in Border Patrol custody, then dozens have died total, including adults
>> But let's talk about that particular facility, because she says that place is just heaven
on earth.
>> They're doing Zumba.
They're doing Zumba.
Are they doing Zumba, Jake?
>> Broward Transitional Center, according to a 2013 report on the center by nonprofit
law for Americans for immigrant justice.
Detailed quote, detainee on detainee rape and with no investigation or charges and quote,
shameful medical practices.
Now, she wound up visiting their years later when the GEO Group gives her group money.
Then says, okay, we found a place that we cleaned up that used to have detainee and
detainee rape and shameful medical practices.
But you're bringing this big film crew that we paid for.
Great, we'll clean it up for maybe, they didn't, maybe it was horrible and she went in and
was like, yeah, good enough.
Who cares?
Check cleared, right?
Check cleared.
Yes, I can't believe the liberals are lying.
It's wonderful.
They got Zumba classes in there, right?
So either way, the whole thing is a sham.
That facility was disastrous, and she goes in there and this propaganda that she literally
gets paid for.
>> I just don't, I don't get it, how can money be that important to you, how?
I just don't understand it, I literally don't understand it.
I can't comprehend how, she's not getting that 50 grand completely, like that's not
100% of her money.
So how much does it takes to sell out like this?
That's what I'm wondering.
Anyway, let me give you some more details.
And again, this is on Sudge, which is one of the outlets that Alex Kotch writes for.
I highly recommend you read his full report which I've tweeted.
He writes the group Turning Point USA, bills itself as a grassroots activist network.
But it receives funding from Republican politicians and GOP mega-donors, including Rep. Greg Gianforte,
Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus.
Former Illinois Governor, Bruce Rauner, and and also shipping supplies magnate, Richard
Uihlein.
Now if you bring this up to Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA, here's the
kind of reaction you'll get.
>> I live like a capitalist every single day, Shane.
I live as a capitalist.
I live what I believe.
>> 35,000 donors across the country.
>> Last point.
>> We are funded by the grass roots of this country, you can try and demagogue it all
you want.
>> Grassroots, family foster freeze, and Republican billionaires are the grassroots.
He's like no, no, no.
We even have Republican multi-millionaires.
We're real grassroots.
So when a private prison company pays you to take away freedom from not just immigrants,
but American citizens, those private prisons aren't just for immigrants.
They legally bribe the our politicians to imprison more and more Americans.
>> Yes.
>> And take away their freedom.
>> Yes.
>> And then you set up a group that you claim is based on freedom.
>> That's right.
>> I believe you broken the record on irony.
>> Look, private prisons are like the bain of our existence.
And most people don't know how deep this goes.
Private prisons started in America.
There was a real boom in the 1980's because of the war on Marijuana.
And so, they've been working with organizations like Alex push for tough on crime legislation.
>> And imprison as many Americans as possible, non-violent Americans, because this is how
they make their money.
And where do you think these private prisons get their money from?
Us, the US taxpayer.
So for all the right-wingers out there who don't care about anything other than money.
You don't care about the cruelty, you don't care about being a decent human being, you
don't care about compassion or empathy, okay, fine.
Let me speak a language that apparently does resonate with you and talk about the money.
Okay, because GEO Group is taking a lot of our taxpayer money while our politicians turn
around and tell us they can't afford our health care, right.
So let's Let's go to graphics 30.
So far this year alone, GEO Group has gotten $27.1 million worth of ICE contracts for the
facility.
>> And we're only halfway through the year.
They have received over $143 million in ICE contracts just for that for one Broward Transitional
Center That Candace Owens was talking about.
So overall, they have received more than $1.8 billion in ICE contracts.
So they sprinkle in a little bit of money for Republican politicians.
In fact, they gave Donald Trump's super PAC $225,000.
Now, since they get government contracts, they're not supposed to do that.
But in the Trump world, you're not supposed to cooperate with the FBI.
You're not supposed to work with law enforcement.
And, apparently, there's no rule of law anymore, right?
So they legally bribe Trump or maybe even not legally because, again, they're in a category
where they're not supposed to give money.
Now if you're thinking about $225,000 sounds like a lot of money, and them $50,000 for
a little propaganda, for turning points USA.
But if you're getting back $1.8 billion in just ice cog tracks, that's a great return
in investment.
No big deal at all.
And Trump comes in and goes, what does he do?
He creates more immigrants to lock up in your private prisons, See, this is crony capitalism.
>> Yes.
>> And where and then ironically, you know what else Charlie Kirk says?
He says no, no turning points USA is about limited government.
Hilarious, when in reality your donors bought our government to set up crony capitalism.
So they expand government like the detention centers where they're keeping those kids What
right wingers in America are doing right now.
And this is a message for the republican voters.
Is they're exploiting your hatred right, to steal from you.
They are robbing you, the U.S. tax payer.
To fund these disgusting institutions that didn't turn around and treat humans poorly.
Like when are we gonna be team human, right?
Can we just all take a step back for a second and consider the fact that we are funding
the deaths of the people at the border right now?
Our money is going toward that.
And again at the same time, the government will turn around and tell us, we don't have
the resources to provide health care.
We don't have the resources to ensure that your kid can go to college without burdening
themselves with student loan debt.
Aren't you sick of that?
>> Yeah, and by the way, it camisoles is no longer with Turning Point USA.
Even some of their chapters were worried When she said if Hitler just wanted to make Germany
great and have things run well, okay, fine.
I have no problems with nationalism.
So she's not worried about detention camps.
Well, I guess at least you got to give her credit for being consistent.